Experience

University of Warwick - School of Law

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Professor

  • Jan 2021 - Present



University of Melbourne

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Mar 2017 - Jan 2021

  My current research focus is the meaning and role of a conception of public benefit in law in the digital era. I lead a number of collaborations between the Melbourne Law School and the wider Melbourne Biomedical Precinct, initiating and contributing legal research/policy advice on: privacy and data protection; regulation/governance of emerging technologies and genomics; use of digital technologies for translational research. My current research focus is the meaning and role of a conception of public benefit in law in the digital era. I lead a number of collaborations between the Melbourne Law School and the wider Melbourne Biomedical Precinct, initiating and contributing legal research/policy advice on: privacy and data protection; regulation/governance of emerging technologies and genomics; use of digital technologies for translational research.



University of Oxford

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Researcher in Law

  • Mar 2014 - Mar 2017

  In 2017, as Research Fellow at the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies ('HeLEX') University of Oxford, I began a two year Research Fellowship in Law at the Melbourne Law School to establish 'HeLEX@Melbourne', Directed by Professor Jane Kaye. 'HeLEX' is an interdisciplinary team of researchers based at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. The Centre specialises in investigating the relationships between law, ethics and practice in the area of emerging technologies in health, and developing those relationships to facilitate effective translational outcomes.In 2014 - 2017 I was the lead researcher in Law for the Administrative Data Service for the Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN), funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The ADRN is a major partnership between government and academia to improve secure access to administrative data for research that will benefit the UK public.



University of Sheffield

• United Kingdom
• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• DPhil in Law

  • Dec 2010 - May 2016

  Population biobanks hold promise for improving the health of future generations by providing researchers with a resource of both human samples and data to investigate the linkages between genes, lifestyle and environment in population health. Widespread concern has been expressed in academic and policy literature as to the ongoing ethical, legal and social challenges that are raised by population biobanks, by virtue of their longitudinal nature and broadly set research aims.To address these challenges, and to balance private interests of the individuals who donate to biobanks, with the public benefit that is believed to derive from the establishment of biobanks, some countries have specifically legislated to establish national biobanks. Alternatively, UK Biobank has been incorporated as a charitable corporation. Potentially, this private legal structure diminishes the public accountability of the project, as well as the protection of donors from personal harm. My thesis analyses the multi-layered nexus of laws within which UK Biobank is embedded and shows the tensions that are associated with using a private legal structure to secure public objectives. UK Biobank is in unchartered legal territory on a number of levels, and this thesis posits UK Biobank as a timely example of a large-scale organisation whose model straddles the public/private divide in law and invites an eclectic mix of corporate, public, charity, contract and tort lawyers into a conversation with ethicists, scientists, policy experts and the public to consider how to effectively progress population health via biobanking. As such, the experience of UK Biobank raises questions as to how best to balance public and private interests in large-scale, public mission organisations in general.

• Postgraduate Teaching Assistant in Tort Law

  • Jan 2011 - Jul 2013

  Seminar Tutor for three consecutive undergraduate cohorts, teaching Tort Law (core module), responsible for tutorials and marking assessments.